I'm intrigued with this story and your connection to so many of the survivors, and I look forward to reading your other posts. When I saw the title of your publication, I thought sure it would be the same flood as covered in one of my favorite books RISING TIDE by John M. Barry. But I just checked, and that was the 1927 flood of the Mississippi River. My husband and I live on the north fork of the Shenandoah River, and while that is tiny compared to what you're writing about, we are certainly sensitive to weather predictions and torrential rains that have brought the waters up into our home.
Thank you for reading, Elizabeth. I'm a huge fan of RISING TIDE by John M. Barry. Yes, I'm connected to many family survivors, including my father, all of whom endured the flood in and around Jeffersonville, Indiana. But my coverage of the story includes other families and locations up and down the Ohio River. As I discovered when I started my research many years ago, it was a huge disaster and thus a potentially big story to tell.
Thank you for this insight. My Grandfather was born and raised in house on First street looking upon the Ohio River in Newport, Kentucky. He lived there for the 1910 floods and then he was in only a few more streets away from the river and working as a patrolman for the Newport Police when the river once more raised in 1937, reaching in taking over 80% of the city streets. I found a gentleman's thesis talking about about that flood. I need to take time to read through it. After that they did build flood walls in Newport and Dayton, but Bellevue opted not to build a flood wall
Thank you for sharing your flood story about your grandfather. I have read about the flooding in Newport and perhaps Covington, too. I will be writing some about that Cincinnati area that got hit hard by the ‘37 flood.
Just stumbled on your history , Neil- fascinating. Growing up in Cincinnati, I heard about how my mom's family also lived through The Flood. She would say it's why her family moved "up the hill" to the neighborhood of Avondale from the West End where my grandparents had settled in the early 1900s, to escape disease from a horrible lack of sanitation in the aftermath. Safer moving to higher ground--but it was also true that Avondale was a wealthier neighborhood at the time, a marker of how her Russian-Jewish immigrant parents were making their way up in the world financially. Not sure whether the flood tale is more apocryphal than factual, but that was the story Mom told!
Thank you for stopping by, Robin. I appreciate your comment and your family story about the flood. The flood dispersed so many people (more than a million) throughout the Ohio and Mississippi valleys. I, for one, would not doubt your family's story. There were so many difficulties both during the flood and the aftermath. Thanks also for the link to the Cincinnati coverage.
I'm intrigued with this story and your connection to so many of the survivors, and I look forward to reading your other posts. When I saw the title of your publication, I thought sure it would be the same flood as covered in one of my favorite books RISING TIDE by John M. Barry. But I just checked, and that was the 1927 flood of the Mississippi River. My husband and I live on the north fork of the Shenandoah River, and while that is tiny compared to what you're writing about, we are certainly sensitive to weather predictions and torrential rains that have brought the waters up into our home.
Thank you for reading, Elizabeth. I'm a huge fan of RISING TIDE by John M. Barry. Yes, I'm connected to many family survivors, including my father, all of whom endured the flood in and around Jeffersonville, Indiana. But my coverage of the story includes other families and locations up and down the Ohio River. As I discovered when I started my research many years ago, it was a huge disaster and thus a potentially big story to tell.
Thank you for this insight. My Grandfather was born and raised in house on First street looking upon the Ohio River in Newport, Kentucky. He lived there for the 1910 floods and then he was in only a few more streets away from the river and working as a patrolman for the Newport Police when the river once more raised in 1937, reaching in taking over 80% of the city streets. I found a gentleman's thesis talking about about that flood. I need to take time to read through it. After that they did build flood walls in Newport and Dayton, but Bellevue opted not to build a flood wall
Thank you for sharing your flood story about your grandfather. I have read about the flooding in Newport and perhaps Covington, too. I will be writing some about that Cincinnati area that got hit hard by the ‘37 flood.
Just stumbled on your history , Neil- fascinating. Growing up in Cincinnati, I heard about how my mom's family also lived through The Flood. She would say it's why her family moved "up the hill" to the neighborhood of Avondale from the West End where my grandparents had settled in the early 1900s, to escape disease from a horrible lack of sanitation in the aftermath. Safer moving to higher ground--but it was also true that Avondale was a wealthier neighborhood at the time, a marker of how her Russian-Jewish immigrant parents were making their way up in the world financially. Not sure whether the flood tale is more apocryphal than factual, but that was the story Mom told!
Some newspaper clippings from the Cincinnati Enquirer documenting that event https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/33ce2215515e40e0986cd044f76fdaac
Thank you for stopping by, Robin. I appreciate your comment and your family story about the flood. The flood dispersed so many people (more than a million) throughout the Ohio and Mississippi valleys. I, for one, would not doubt your family's story. There were so many difficulties both during the flood and the aftermath. Thanks also for the link to the Cincinnati coverage.
I like your voice here.
Thank you.
Well written.
Tom, thanks so much for readinng.